Bekker''s Digammated Text of Homer. 193 



this particular word there is reason for suspecting that it began Avith 

 some other consonant. Yet we woukl by no means advise either 

 that the relative-stem should be written in Homer with initial y, or 

 that Uuaxn; and io; should be Avritten with initial (t. A lost digam- 

 ma manifests itself in the Homeric verse in many Avords with much 

 clearness and Avith considerable approach to uniformity: it may 

 therefore Avith piopriety be inserted in an edition having the charac- 

 ter and aims of the one under revicAV. But the case is Avidely differ- 

 ent Avith a lost y and a lost o : these, if Ave make the most of them, 

 are only rare and doubtful. 



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